Kristi Piiper (1983) is an author of children’s and young adult literature. She earned an International Baccalaureate Diploma in Berlin and currently studies nursing at the Tartu Healthcare College. Piiper has published five children’s books and a three-part young adult series. Her characters are highly active and independent young persons for whom no problem is insurmountable, especially when they work together. Young people’s mental health issues is also an occurring theme in her writing.
2020 Nominee of Tartu Prize for Children’s Literature (Childhood Prize) (The Lovesick Basement Monster, the Vegan Blood Sausage, and Other Stories) 2019 Children’s Story Competition “My First Book”, 2nd place (The Countryside Inheritance)